Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center For Byzantine Studies, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Quarto volume bound in original green cloth and lettered in gilt on the spine. This volume dedicated to Father Francis Dvornik. This volume contains a Dedication and Bibliography of Father Dvornik followed by these essays: Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot - The Patriarch Athanasius (1289-1293; 1303-1309) and the Church; Penelope C. Mayo - The Crusaders Under the Palm: Allegorical Plants and Cosmic Kingship in the Liber Floridus; George P. Majeska - St. Sophia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: The Russian Travelers on the Relics; W. Eugene Kleinbauer - The Origins and Functions of the Aisled Tetraconch Churches in Syria and Northern Mesopotamia; Thomas F. Mathews - Observations on the Church of Panagia Kamariotissa on Heybeliada (Chalke), Istanbul; with A Note on Panagia Kamariotissa and Some Imperial Foundations of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries at Constantinople, by Cyril Mango; Ernst Kitzinger - Observations on the Samson Floor at Mopsuestia; Margaret English Frazer - Church Doors and Gates of Paradise: Byzantine Bronze Doors in Italy; Michael J. Jeffreys - Formulas in the Chronicle of the Morea; David H. Wright - The Date and Arrangement of the Illustrations in the Rabbula Gospels; Herbert L. Kessler - Paris, Gr. 102: A Rare Illustrated Acts of the Apostles; David Pingree - The Horoscope of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Then follows two Field Reports: Cyril Mango and Ihor Sevceno - Some Churches and Monasteries on the Southern Shore of the Sea of Marmara; Ernest J. W. Hawkins and Marlia C. Mundell - The Mosaics of the Monastery of Mar Samuel, Mar Simeon, and Mar Gabriel near Kartmin; with A Note on the Greek Inscription, by Cyrial Mango; R. Martin Harrison - A Constantinopolitan Capital in Barcelona. Finally, some concluding Notes: Semavi Eyice - La Fontaine et les Citernes Byzantines de la Citadelle d'Afyon Karahisari; Donald M. Nicol - The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos. Some Addenda and Corrigenda; Paul Hetherington - "The Poets" in the (Greek) of Dionysius of Fourna; Nicolas Oikonomides - Two Seals of Symeon Metaphrastes. This volume is illustrated throughout with several large fold-out examples. The Dust Jacket is extremely clean, bright and complete. As nice a copy as one could hope to find.

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